this is gonna mean a lot of new jersey jobs lostposted by clubmedia at 10:12 PM on December 7, 2004

I really doubt IBM is going to buy Apple. They really dont have any use for the culture, apple doesnt make much money, and IBM really doesnt care about the consumer market. They've always lost money whenever they attemped consumer stuff. Witness what happened to lotus after they bought them. Anyone ever buy an Aptiva? Anyway, IBM will be glad to provide apple with technology, but they dont trust themselves to do consumer again. After this divesture, IBM should be like 60% services, 30% tech (chip manufacturing and patents) and 10% software.posted by JZig at 10:54 PM on December 7, 2004

There's still a significant hardware component in there, JZig. Just not consumer hardware.posted by jacquilynne at 5:16 AM on December 8, 2004

Does this mean we're all screwed for a decent Windows laptop?

BTW, zSeries is HUGE in industry and government, so IBM will stay invested in enterprise hardware for a while.posted by sid at 8:27 AM on December 8, 2004

the boxes are still going to be labled "IBM"?

And obvoiusly IBM isn't going to do anything with apple, if they wanted to stay in the desktop space, they wouldn't have sold it off.

In fact, they may not even be able to do desktops anymore.posted by delmoi at 10:53 AM on December 8, 2004

According to CNET, part of the deal is that IBM and its subsidiaries will not sell or manufacture personal computers for the next five years.posted by Prince Nez at 9:43 PM on December 8, 2004

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